HELP [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Supervision, Curriculum, and Instruction — Higher Education EdD Print-Friendly Page

For the Doctor of Education degree in Supervision, Curriculum, and Instruction—Higher Education (SCIH), the student may select one of two options: 60-semester-hour program or a 90-semester-hour program.

The 60-semester-hour program is designed specifically for persons who already have a master’s degree. Building upon the master’s degree, the program requires a major field of 36 semester hours (not including the dissertation), plus 12 semester hours of research tools and 12 semester hours of electives. The 90-semester-hour program requires everything from the 60-semester-hour program plus a minor—10 courses from outside the major—which can be comprehensive or split. A comprehensive minor requires that all 10 courses come from 1 field, whereas a split minor (6-4 or 5-5) requires courses from 2. An interdisciplinary minor (4-3-3) is also possible.

Doctoral advisement committees include (minimally) 2 individuals from the Major—one of whom will serve as major adviser and one from each of the minor areas. These individuals help determine the courses to be taken and are involved in evaluating written and oral qualifying examinations, the dissertation proposal, and the dissertation.

The research tools for both options are proficiency in educational statistics and in quantitative and qualitative research methodology. Students must also be proficient in the use of technology as some coursework throughout the doctoral program is delivered on the Internet.